Fight big with big. Designers of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge East Span Replacement (Oakland Skyway Project) were presented the task of creating a structure hefty enough...
One didn't have to walk far for a pair of shoes during the industrial boom of Southeastern Pennsylvania. Back then an industry like steel or coal had much of the U.S. riding its...
Hidden agenda Police in Austria aren't sure what's stranger: the fact that a 52-year-old man tried to rob a bank disguised as a woman, or that he was caught by two guys on a lawn...
Completed in 1936, New York City's Triborough is a mature bridge now undergoing a multi-year, multi-million dollar reconstruction project to ensure many more years of service ...
The lifting segment of the construction industry suffered through another bad year in 2003, with sales in the U.S. projected to be off by 7% from 2002. This was on top of a 14...
Like many major bridges in the San Francisco Bay area--the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, the Benicia-Martinez, the Richmond-San Rafael, the San Mateo-Hayward and the Carquinez...
Very few long-span tied-arch bridges have been built recently in the U.S. due to concerns regarding redundancy of the structural system and the fact that cable-stayed systems ...
The design and construction of the 560-ft bridge taking Fifth Street over I-25 and Plum Creek in Castle Rock, Colo., came up against severe environmental constraints. Plum Creek...
Located on the shores of the St. Clair River, the downtown area of Port Huron, Mich., is divided by the Black River, and three closely spaced bascule bridges link the north and...
Massive concrete U-beams, 145 ft long and 8 ft wide, were recently used for the Goldenrod Road Bridge constructed by the Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority as part of ...
With a stroke of a pen on Sept. 29, President Bush extended the federal surface transportation legislation for five months, maintaining funding for federal highway and transit...
A replacement of the Cooper River bridges is currently under construction and when completed will provide a 1,005-m-long cable-stayed main span over the Cooper River between the...
NTEA.com, the National Truck Equipment Association’s (NTEA) website, is a valuable resource consisting of information specific to your business in the commercial truck and transportatio...
Since the big rigging investigations of the '70s, the integrity of highway contractors has been an important issue for government officials. In the post-Enron era corporate integrity...
Entering its fourth year of construction, the Woodrow Wilson Bridge project is the third-largest of its kind in the nation. But unlike some megaprojects, this financial house ...